Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 343, Hammond, Lake County, 19 April 1922 — Page 7

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brushed oft by a whizzing train? Have ou evt-r had to turu your machine Suddenly to save yourself from eternity? Have you ever felt a criminal neglect for the loved ones you carried in your car? Alany motorists have and many of them have had just auch an experience as Engineer Briggs of the Big Four railroad, relates in the following article he was considerate enough to write for the Hoosler Motorist and with tho thought In mind that it might save some from an untimely death, the automobile editor passes It on. Engineer Brlggs says: "How would you like to sit tit the throttle of 'a high-speed passenger locomotive and watch automobile drivers flirting 'with death at nearly every road crossing? "Can you imagine, the horror of the thrills and the cola chills that would play up and down your Vertebra under such circumstances? "Are you one of the thousands of foolhardy automobile drivers who dally take chances In trying to beat the train to the graflo cross

inga If so, perhaps you aro one f the nlt-wits that 1 am going to preach to. "I am not afraid of hurting your feelings. They need to be hurt. It has about reached the point where 1 have no feeling? of sympathy for the victim of the average grade crossing accident. I have not yet joined the five-minute-egg club. I am not quite hard boiled, but oh, brothers, if you were in my place you would realize the awful chances you take, in risking your own lives.

the lives of your friends or dear

Ones, when you try to beat me to the crossing. "For I can not stop, look and listen at every grade crossing. I am pulling perhaps ten heavy steel coaches and Pullmans and bearing the United States mails. I must make my schedule and I must keep my throttle open.. The most I can do is to exercise the utmost caution for objects or Obstructions on the track, to watch my block signals and to follow my orders faithfully. These orders of course include the two long? and t short blasts for all grade crossings. '" "And, believe me, friend motorlit, when I sound that warnfng whistle. Of sometimes a series of suclj blasts, you had better give heed or

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"wob. w neiner you near Heavenly sounds, subsequently, depends on your mode of life. I may say here and now that such music may not be for you. if you join the suicide club of motorists who try to cross ahead of a train. The Koosier Motor club and the Hoosler Stato Auto association comprises one of the greatest agencies for safe and an driving that I know of and because these represent the organized molortlsts Of In

dianapolis and Indiana I am mak

highway hazards and perils? If not you are not doing your duty to yourself Or to your neighbor motorist. It is said some animals dd ndt set their eyes open for a certain number Of days after birth." It is certainly different with the human lamily, Some of us never get our eyes open, but stumble and fall and pod along an the days of uf lives. "I feel that we engineers hive is much right to ignore our orders and

messages with reference to meeting points and slow orders over bad tracks as tne motot: far driver has to ignore safety signs along the highway. What would you think" of an engineer who would deliberately run past a red light? "Then, what would do think of the motorist who not only Ignores a red lantern in the. road, but who as often as not gets out f his car or tfueit and picks that lantern u and carries it on away with hlmt That dirty, sneaking trick has bert done frequently by motorists, according to information given mo by the Hoosler Motor club and by warren Ttumford, Superintendent of

Highways fof Marion County. "I think that now spring automobile sales are openrng up, it should be the duty of every automobile talesman to instill in the purchaser of new cars a full line of safety first rules. I Would be a good thing for every editor to print safety rules and warnings, not only once, but repeatedly. Even the pulpits might well thunder against foolhardiness and recklessness on the highways by motor car drivers. "Statistics show that unless there

is a let-up soon, we may find that there Is a railroad crossing fatality in this country every thirty minutes. "to you know that you are apt to be the next rlctim, within tho next thirty minutes? "I am not a crank against automobile drivers. I am simply trying to get you lined up on safety first Then you would stop some of the thrills and . thills and headache which we locomotive engineers' suffer dally. "And you would not be laid away In the eold, cold ground or else to Ignore safety signs along th hovering betwixt life and death 1ft some hospital. "Since writing ' my previous article on foolhardy driving at railway crossings I have experienced numerous incidents which give me the creeps every time I think of them. Just tho other night I as

rolling in top speed and sounded several warnings for a very open grade crossing. From my side of

the cab the road looked clear but

just as we were almost on top of

the crossing, I saw a big automobile shot across the track ahead of us. coming almost right out from under my pilot. My headlight was visible to that driver for more than a mile and my warning whistle

lng my appeal through them. The ! could hve 1bMn heard for several

members mut be sensible to a big clrlc duty elte they would not be members of tho motor association. Taking this for granted it is fair to suppose these members are not members of the grade crossing suicide club, fer they are putting up their membership fees through which their organization is erecting railroad warning signs every'where In the state. "I certainly hope then, that members of these organizations are practicing the moito of the club's officers which is: "Drive sensibly and safely." "I notice one Hoosier Motor Club sign which reads: 'Dangerous Crossing. Many Killed Here.'" And

it bears a skull aod cross-bones. "But In the face of this warning I have seen motortists drive across the track ahead of my train and 'making it' by the narrowest of margins. 'Do you realize the motor club is paying out its hard gathered dollars to put up this sign so that your life may be saved? Are you helping the motor club by your membership so that more signs may be erected everywhere throughout Indiana to warn you and all others of

miles. I plainly saw the face of

the driver In the car as he breezed acros just a hair's breath ahead of the Orlm Reaper. Had I hit him he would have been dead instantly. And, I suppose I might have been accused of manslaughter, "Recently a man hired by a township to take children back and forth to a school in a hack, drove up on the track at Clark's Hill after I had whistled for the crossing and atso had whistled for the station. We were in plain sight, with nothing to obstruct the view, and to my best judgment this man had not moved more than ten feet from the track' when I whizzed by him. A small boy in the rear of the hack put up his hand gleefully and waved at me.

"Can you imagine how my heart was palpitating? He did not know how near death's door he had been. There were thirty or more youngsters in that can A second, and all might have ' been hurled into eternity. What a flaughter of innocents! The cold chills creep over me every time I think of this. And every few days you read in the papers where some other hack driver

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Benjamin F. Manis Not An Obituary

Ben Manis has a little tire and vulcanizing shop on Calumet avenue. When he moved there about a year ago he could very easily handle all the work himself. There is nothing auspicious about the place, nothing particularly attractive about itbut there is one thing there that is attracting the attention of motorists, and that is he idea of service, as Manis sees it. Today he has a force of four men taking care of the work. Manis bat had a thorough training in the tire game serving his apprenticeship in a tire factory, where he learned about all there is to know in tire manufacture. He liked the work and decided

to stick to it. He sav? Hammond , work and opened up a vulcanizing I

was a good ripe field for his line of shop on Hohman street. He saw greater possibilities on Calumet avenue and from tha time he moved his business has increased at a rapid pace. He is considered a dean when it comes to vulcanizing, and as a tire diagnostician he is accepted as an authority by many motorists. Manis it a hard worker and thinks twenty-four hours is a pretty short day. His shop is open early and

late with a live bunch ever alert to take care of an important part of the motorists troubles. Bes.dss the vulcanizing department he also sells standard make tires, tubes and also carries a line of accessories.

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